REVIEW: Shameful exposé of Afghan war but not enough media grunt

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Authors and Corporations: Hollings, James
In: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 19, 2013, 1, p. 303-305
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 303-305
ISSN: 2324-2035
1023-9499
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v19i1.255
published in: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
Language: Undetermined
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Collection: Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>New Zealand's war in Afghanistan is our longest-ever foreign engagement. Our troops have been there for 10 years—more than World Wars One and Two combined. It has cost the country around $300 million, and one soldier has died for every year the New Zealand military has been there. And for what?  That is one of the questions this documentary, perhaps the first serious attempt on film to question New Zealand involvement in the International Security Assistance Force, tries to answer. </jats:p>